Popular movies sometimes feature leagues of superheroes who are ready to defend the Earth against catastrophe. In this episode, we’re going to be discussing some real-life superheroes, as chronicled in the new book by our guest, Tom Ough. The book is entitled “The Anti-Catastrophe League: The Pioneers And Visionaries On A Quest To Save The World”. Some of these heroes are already reasonably well known, but others were new to David, and, he suspects, to many of the book’s readers.Tom is a London-based journalist. Earlier in his career he worked in newspapers, mostly for the Telegraph, where he was a staff feature-writer and commissioning editor. He is currently a senior editor at UnHerd, where he commissions essays and occasionally writes them. Perhaps one reason why he writes so well is that he has a BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, where he was a Casberd scholar.Selected follow-ups:<ul><li><a href='https://tomough.com/about'>About Tom Ough</a></li><li><a href='https://tomough.com/book'>The Anti-Catastrophe League</a> - The book's webpage</li><li><a href='https://www.asimov.press/p/blocked-transmission'>On novel methods of pandemic prevention</a></li><li><a href='https://www.effectivealtruism.org/'>What is effective altruism?</a> (EA)</li><li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried'>Sam Bankman-Fried</a> - Wikipedia (also covers FTX)</li><li><a href='https://www.openphilanthropy.org/'>Open Philanthropy</a></li><li><a href='https://conscium.com/'>Conscium</a></li><li><a href='https://wwnorton.com/books/Here-Comes-the-Sun/'>Here Comes the Sun</a> - book by Bill McKibben</li><li><a href='https://www.backgroundanimal.com/articles/10-most-streamed-beatles-songs'>The 10 Best Beatles Songs (Based on Streams)</a></li><li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event'>Carrington Event</a> - Wikipedia</li><li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_life'>Mirror life</a> - Wikipedia</li><li><a href='https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8c1ab46a-061c-479d-b587-8909989e4f51'>Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: final report</a> - by Anders Sandberg</li><li><a href='https://global-catastrophic-risks.com/'>Oxford FHI Global Catastrophic Risks</a> - FHI Conference, 2008</li><li><a href='https://www.forethought.org/'>Forethought</a></li><li><a href='https://calumchace.com/can-we-have-meaning-as-well-as-fun-review-of-nick-bostroms-deep-utopia/'>Review of Nick Bostrom’s Deep Utopia</a> - by Calum</li><li><a href='https://www.newscientist.com/article/2489248-deepmind-and-openai-claim-gold-in-international-mathematical-olympiad/'>DeepMind and OpenAI claim gold in International Mathematical Olympiad</a></li><li><a href='https://www.mos.org/article/what-heck-hubble-tension-aka-hubble-wars'>What the Heck is Hubble Tension?</a></li><li><a href='https://situational-awareness.ai/'>The Decade Ahead</a> - by Leopold Aschenbrenner</li><li><a href='https://ai-2027.com/'>AI 2027</a></li><li><a href='https://www.anglofuturism.co/'>Anglofuturism</a></li></ul>Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration<a href='https://www.priceroberts.com/' target='_blank'>Inspiring Tech Leaders - The Technology Podcast</a>Interviews with Tech Leaders and insights on the latest emerging technology trends.Listen on: <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1563026924' target='_blank'>Apple Podcasts</a> &nbsp; <a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/5ihWZxxIa2rEnzbx5tdKfH' target='_blank'>Spotify</a>

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